Thank you very much for your support over the past decade, playing Warcraft III. Over the past few months, you may have noticed we have introduced a new battle platform. It’s introduced features like matchmaking [and] the ability to communicate with your friends at a level that is unparalleled to anything we have done with Warcraft III in the market before. And on top of that, we’re proud to announce that on March 15, the next patch for Warcraft III will be available in the market, simultaneously with the rest of the globe.

So what’s in this patch? We’re not quite sure yet. There were some hints that it would include balance tweaks, something that has always been important for RTS games, but it seems Blizzard is keeping its mouth shut on the exact changes for now. When Diablo 2 was patched to 1.14a a few days ago the updates were mostly to improve the anti-cheat software and ensure the game runs better on modern hardware, so we can probably expect similar for the Warcraft 3 patch.

The patches for Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 may not be so surprising to those who follow the company closely. Last year Blizzard opened up Blizzard Classic Games who had the job of specifically caring for and ensuring that those two games, along with Starcraft, can continue to run on modern hardware.

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I'm Sam. Been playing video games since PlayStation. Favorite games include Ace Combat 5, Perfect Dark, Final Fantasy IX, Metro 2033, and MonsterBag. Also loves books and can be found face first in one all the time.